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Getting Started with React VR

You're reading from   Getting Started with React VR Build immersive Virtual Reality apps for the web with React

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476607
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. What is Virtual Reality, Really? 2. Flatland and Beyond: VR Programming FREE CHAPTER 3. 3D or Reality in Dimensions Other than X and Y 4. The React VR Library 5. Your First VR App 6. Working with Poly and the Gon Family 7. Sitting Down with a (Virtual) Teapot 8. Breath Life in Your World 9. Do It Yourself – Native Modules and Three.js 10. Bringing in the Real Live World 11. Take a Walk on the Wild Side 12. Publishing Your App, and Where to Go from Here

JSX - the syntax of React VR

React VR will look familiar to HTML; this makes it easy to read, edit, and deploy. Behind the scenes, the UI syntactical glue that React and React VR use will be compiled into JSX or JavaScript eXtension. JSX is a React grammar extension to allow coding in a blend of HTML and JavaScript. You can also code JSX directly.

An example of React JSX is as follows:

const element = <h1>My title!</h1>;

This is not a string, as it's not in quotes, and it's also not JavaScript. It's much more readable and easier to use than coding in JavaScript directly. JSX makes programming faster and more declarative.

It is useful, but all of this readability and easy-to-program nature comes with a few pitfalls. One of them is that semicolons will automatically get entered. Just like with HTML, you can include extra lines, but your code...
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